Be'lesis
or BE'LESYS (
Βέλεσις,
Βέλεσυς), the noblest of the Chaidaean priests at Babylon, who, according to the account of Ctesias, is said, in conjunction with Arbaces, the Mede, to have overthrown the old Assyrian empire. [ARBACES.] Beiesis afterwards received the satrapy of Babylon from Arbaces. (
Diod. 2.24, &100.28.)